Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Tritonidae Boie, 1828, Isis von Oken, 21: 363. Type genus: Triton Laurenti, 1768.

Tritones Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 26. Type genus: Triton Laurenti, 1768.

Tritonides Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 26. Type genus: Triton Laurenti, 1768.

Pleurodeles Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 26. Type genus: Pleurodeles Michahelles, 1830.

Pleurodelina Bonaparte, 1839, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 26): unnumbered. Bonaparte, 1840, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat., Bologna, 4: 11. Type genus: Pleurodeles Michahelles, 1830.

Pleurodelae — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 33. Subsequent usage of "Pleurodelae Tschud."

Tritonines — Bronn, 1849, Handb. Geschich. Natur, 5: 683. Pleurodelidae— Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p.

Pleurodelina — Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p.

Bradybatina Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p. Type genus: Bradybates Tschudi, 1838. Synonymy by XXX.

Tritonina Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p. Type genus: Triton Laurenti, 1768 (= Triturus Rafinesque, 1815).

Geotritonidae Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p. Type genus: Geotriton Bonaparte, 1832 (= Triturus Rafinesque, 1815).

Geotritonina — Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p.

Molgidae Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 14. Type genus: Molge Merrem, 1820.

Pleurodelini — Massalongo, 1853, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat., Bologna, Ser. 3, 7: 11. Pleurodelidae— Hallowell, 1856, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 10.

Seiranotidae — Hallowell, 1856, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 10. Hallowell, 1858, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 3: 337.

Tritonidae — Hallowell, 1856, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 10.

Tritonidi — Acloque, 1900, Fauna de France, 1: 491.

Triturinae Brame, 1957, List World’s Recent Caudata: 9. Type genus: Triturus Rafinesque, 1815. Unavailable name due to being distributed by mimeograph.

Voigtiellinae Brame, 1958, List World’s Fossil Caudata: 4. Type Genus: Voigtiella Herre, 1949. Unavailable name due to being distributed by mimeograph.

Triturinae Kuhn, 1965, Die Amphib.: 37. Type genus: Triturus Rafinesque, 1815. Attributed to Brame, 1957.

Pleurodelinae Risch, 1985, J. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc., N.S.,, 4: 139-143. . < Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 175;. Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 42.

Molgini — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 44. Explicit tribe.

Molgina — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 44. Explicit subtribe.

Molgita — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 44. Explicit infratribe.

Cynopita — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 44. Explicit infratribe.

Euproctita — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 44. Explicit infratribe.

Tarichina — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 57. Explicit subtribe.

Chioglossini Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 57. Type species: Chioglossa Bocage, 1864, by original designation. Explicit tribe.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

From the British Isles and Scandinavia eastward to the Ural Mountains, southward into the Iberian Peninsula and Asia Minor; north-central India and China to northern Vietnam; extreme northwestern Africa; southern Canada and the USA to extreme northern Mexico.

Comment

Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 42, redelimited Pleurodelinae to exclude Salamandrininae; see comments under Salamandridae. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, on the basis of a study of legacy DNA sequences suggested a phylogenetic arrangment (based on a Maximum Likelihood tree) of the genera: (((Pleurodeles + (Tylototriton + Echinotriton)) + ((Notophthalmus + Taricha)) + (Lissotriton + (((Triturus + Calotriton) + (Ommatotriton + Neurergus)) + (Euproctus + (Ichthyosaura + (Laotriton + (Pachytriton + (Paramesotriton + Cynops))))))))). Chen, Wang, Liu, Xie, and Jiang, 2011, Curr. Zool., Chengdu, 57: 785805, on the basis of 11 protein-coding mtDNA genes, suggested a considerably different topology, with a taxon composed of Pleurodeles, Echinotriton, and Tylototriton forming the sister taxon of all other pleurodelines.

Contained taxa

• Calotriton Gray, 1858 (2 sp.)
• Cynops Tschudi, 1838 (8 sp.)
• Echinotriton Nussbaum and Brodie, 1982 (2 sp.)
• Euproctus Gené, 1838 (2 sp.)
• Ichthyosaura Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 (1 sp.)
• Laotriton Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009 (1 sp.)
• Lissotriton Bell, 1839 (10 sp.)
• Neurergus Cope, 1862 (4 sp.)
• Notophthalmus Rafinesque, 1820 (3 sp.)
• Ommatotriton Gray, 1850 (2 sp.)
• Pachytriton Boulenger, 1878 (8 sp.)
• Paramesotriton Chang, 1935 (11 sp.)
• Pleurodeles Michahelles, 1830 (3 sp.)
• Taricha Gray, 1850 (4 sp.)
• Triturus Rafinesque, 1815 (8 sp.)
• Tylototriton Anderson, 1871 (13 sp.)

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